i mean barely any of the. latest news in the week's top stories rights groups in egypt claimed violations in the vote on a new draft constitution with unofficial results showing a narrow backing for it as sporadic violence erupts on the streets. rebels in syria claim they're making gains in their push toward damascus while the u.s. is giving the opposition a boost by granting it official approval. and a launch of defiance north korea blasts off its latest rocket despite global condemnation saying it placed a weather satellite into orbit. three

and moscow why matt treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on our t.v. coming to you now in high definition. rights groups in egypt are calling for saturday's first round of a constitutional referendum to be held again after claiming widespread violations meanwhile unofficial tallies released by the years almost cab show a narrow majority backing the charter yeah opposition which has been urging a no vote to what it calls a discriminatory draft also accepted that opponents were leading with the slim advantage journalist belcher's been following the boat in cairo it's been a tense night here in the capital in cairo as people have been waiting for these key results on the referendum of the constitution to limit the results of course the official ones will come out of the second round which indicates that it was

a yes vote the muslim brotherhood together with media outlets numbers and mounting up there saying approximately fifty six point five percent voted yes forty three point five percent voting no this will seem to be of course a major blow to the opposition forces particularly because in this round only two of the governor it's involved to ten very tense i see voted as a no to the constitution this particular stage of the referendum was largely seen to be the biggest chance for a no vote to the constitution as the governor is involved i've seen voted against the president during the presidential elections so really right now the opposition forces are going to have to either drum up support in the next six days for the second round or final time to talk to you to campaign i think there will be heightened tensions of course i mean people have criticized the idea that the referendum expectance two days of the week in the middle with these results coming out because of course people are going to react to them as we entered the late

stages of the voting process which had been extended by several hours by the electoral commission because of high turnouts they were violent scenes in the streets of cairo and. the one party headquarters the opposition position. were attacked by suppose it supports is of has an obvious manner. the doc says sour faced kmita one time presidential candidate one party did i reports that ultra conservative islamist torch that headquarters talking with firearms and take out the security forces did report injuries so really we'll have to see of the next week what happens in the build up to the second round this crucial rounds the seventeen other governorates going to vote on this constitution . day would a spokesperson for the national salvation front claims there been a number of violations while the opposition is also demanding a repeat of the first round of the referendum but right now we want the authorities

the election commission to look into the violations and to decide by itself whether this is big enough in order to repeat the first round and in case we are going to go to the second round we want to make sure that these violations are not going to be repeated particularly in terms of the outcomes of this is a privilege and there were not enough judges yesterday to look into the supervise the vote we also complained about preventing our observers the preservers of human rights groups from attending the counting process according to a decision by the judges we want to attend and be present during the counting and we also complaining about the fact that the muslim brotherhood members were continuing their propaganda inside the polling stations until the last minute trying to influence voters and tried to convince them to vote yes for the constitution claiming that voting no would that mean that you are an infidel or that you are against islam so we're still holding a lot of hope the president morsi will listen to the voice of wisdom and considering that this is a draft constitution that's dividing the country even if we take the results that are being circulated right now it's not enough definitely in

a country after the revolution to have a constitution that's approved by a very small minority fifty something just. syrian rebels have captured fifteen brace in the city of aleppo was the opposition is making gains across the country and their push toward the capital damascus meanwhile a palestinian refugee camp in the syrian capital has come under attack by warplanes leaving at least eight dead this week the opposition got another financial and political boost with the u.s. recognizing the coalition washington says it's meant to isolate extremist groups wallow in the rebels to up their struggle against the syrian government gaiety chickie on takes a look at who is fighting in the anti aside can. they call themselves martyrs. all those you see around you the fighters you see are living martyrs and the living martyr has already sacrificed a soul for this country syrian rebels say they will stop at nothing to defeat us

out. some of them are so proud of their deeds that they post them on the web including the execution of prisoners. or having a child behead a man who was presumably an assault supporter atrocities are committed on all fronts during syria's bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground it's islamist groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels dr tatar we come meet was a member of a jihadi spoken his asian twenty five years ago he later became a vocal opponent of radical islam the jihadists have no problem to behead people alive you deal with people like bin ladin and they're all because of al qaida who have no his e.t.a. shin to use any form of whip on to to really. control any place. religious believes an ideology the so-called friends of syria including the gulf states the u.s. the u.k. and friends met in morocco to throw their weight behind the newly formed syrian

opposition coalition two thirds of the islamist dominated entire coalition has ties to the muslim brotherhood in cellophane. and their idea of freedom for syria what. it's a positive sign for us that our military struggle is characterized by being mostly islamic because martyrdom for the sake of anna has always been the main motive of people. in what's seen as a symbolic attempts to distance themselves from terrorists in syria washington has designated one of the rebel groups a terrorist organization but the same syrian opposition that the us supports welcomes the efforts of groups like al nusra the decision of considering one of the factions fighting the regime as a terrorist organization should be reconsidered. this is a demonstration of support for almost in syria with people heard chanting we are students of osama. people here in washington don't seem to understand

that if you don't like the government in cairo or if you do like the government in cairo i guess i should say then you will love the government the comes to power in damascus because you will see a sunni muslim islamised government a muslim brotherhood style government that is absolutely intolerant fundamentally hostile to the west washington has failed to officially denounce the many suicide bombings perpetrated by the rebels in syria preferring to focus on the wrongs committed by the assad regime alone the u.s. is also ramping up the rhetoric about the possibility of the assad government using chemical weapons against civilians something that damascus says would be suicidal on the other hand many rebels are not averse to the idea of suicide in the name of what they call a holy war militants have recently taken control of a toxic chemical plant in the country's second city of aleppo a video was uploaded to youtube showing them testing chemical weapons on rabbits we could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage for the you will die

like these do rabbits in its own words the assad government is fighting terrorists . that battle has claimed thousands of innocent lives the measures the syrian government resorted to have been widely criticized but does that mean the world should keep their eyes shocked at who's actually fighting for power in syria now in washington i'm going to check on. north korea defied the world wednesday when it launched a long range rocket that it says successfully placed a weather satellite into orbit but the claims were met with skepticism by the u.s. south korea and japan who suspect he was in fact testing a long range ballistic missile technology north korea's banned from such test by u.n. resolutions the security council condemned the launch saying it will consider an appropriate response while the e.u.'s threatening more sanctions anti-war campaigner it's iraq and says talks are the only solution to the ongoing impasse. these are causing us to have more talks not less talks and the north koreans have

been willing to attend talks other nations has certainly russia has another nations that have been involved in the six party talks and our the threats are just japan south korea the united states are less. willing to engage in talks or in these things happening but what the u.n. said was not only don't use ballistic missile technology it said we must have a commitment to a peaceful diplomatic and political solution to the situation there and that's what is really crying out and i think russia and other countries must finally say now wait a while he's there for the problem but i'm afraid that the united states is going to step back talk less isolate more of a military base that the united states will bring merrily south korea's building on jesuit island in an effort to create a ring around china perhaps and to deal with north korea are all setbacks to peace

what's necessary i think at this point in time is not is to step back from the process and the outside countries the other countries around the world must say wait a minute a peaceful china south korea north korea japan as a region will have a huge impact on world east and i think that it's really incumbent that we put pressures toward peace and not toward amping up the conflict anymore. and still to come scrubs against austerity as medical workers in spain stage a protest rally over the government's move to privatized the health care sector plus the united kingdom seems to be turning into an island of tax avoidance where giant companies get out of paying their fair share while people barely making ends meet are getting hit harder and more after the break.

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thanks for staying with us as we wrap up the week's news on r t fifteen minutes past the hour now. thousands of medical workers in madrid have marched against plans to privatized hospitals the government insists is part of the austerity measures needed to pick the country up from its deep recession investment advisor patrick young says that the government's years of failed policies left it with no other choice now either been fighting austerity. the truth is there is no money to pay all of these nurses and doctors there is no money for this loutish government infrastructure it has to be privatized there have to be something else because

truly sabean has spent the last decade living on the never never it was built on the back of a huge property bubble the bubble was unsustainable nobody managed to manage to stop unfortunately while we can obviously say it's a tragedy for the poor independent healthcare professionals there's just no way to manage to find the money to aid them in modern spain here is a government that has effectively and an overall majority they can do absolutely anything they want and they seem to be absolutely determined to do more or less nothing and it's really a tragedy because they're not helping the spanish economy and they're not helping the people either. our web team is working around the clock to ride you with the best pictures and stories online here's a quick glimpse of what they have lined up on our team what's in a name well little more than forty five thousand dollars it seems because that's what one u.s. manzer earned after selling someone the right to give him a new surname find out his motivation at our team dot com. plus watch you

watching it is a security firm has found a way to hack into so-called smart t.v.'s giving access to the devices built in camera and microphones allowing them to spy on you and everything you do. britain is losing out on millions of pounds in taxes as some corporate giants are wiggling out of their pay of paying their fair share it's anger in the u.k. public which is left to pick up the slack while also being loaded with tough austerity but as our ports the government seems fine with keeping the status quo. well people from all of. this country companies like starbucks and apple and google at the moment it's really part of a much larger picture welcome to the world of tax avoidance the legal but morally suspect way companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share

most people are due to discuss these companies do not the v.a. taxation which is a criminal offense but are void taxation basically use existing facilities and legal loopholes in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like. head office is based in luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg so well known in tax haven where companies can enjoy a lower tax rate but hang on a minute we're here one of amundsen's must've distribution centers based in the u.k. but the reality is that many of our customers most of their employees and many will distribution centers like this what are in fact based here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg office is nothing fact is they say at the heart of their operation and yet the u.k.

tax system doesn't seem to recognise it as ordinary british taxpayers who are losing out that's entirely on the face of it to run because you can register your transaction in different country and the place of registration is the place of taxation whereas you can have your activities actually taking place here is legal. surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy ek government would be eager to plug the holes billions of much needed tax pounds really count. but in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the pelisse on welfare he were in the government's firing line why has this government decided to clamp down on benefit for clamping down on a multi-million pound tax avoiders. well i think that the government is clamping

down on that there's been a lot of money allocated by him but now that people know that. or doing that now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it are not paying well there's a difference between people. who voiding tax to legitimate reasons and those who are illegally doing it and there is a to do when we were. paying where interest. let me actually answer the question once before you actually interlocked a legally tax avoid is ok to legally tell you what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok's that you're saying there's a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion tax evasion is illegal tax avoidance people are using the law to their benefit now if the law is wrong we need

to change the law but for now the law continues to allow an exodus of profits made in britain meaning companies like amazon can keep getting away with paying less than the tax payers they're profiting from surface r.t. london turning now to some other stories making global headlines an attack on a police station in the eastern libyan city of benghazi has claimed the lives of four policemen and injured three other. as the assailants killed one law enforcement official firing a rocket propelled grenade at the compound and shot dead and wounded the others in the ensuing battle the raid is thought to be linked to the recent detention of two men suspected of carrying out several assassinations of security officials in this city. preparing for a fast approaching cycle over authorities say more than four hundred people have already been evacuated the cyclon earlier refute the nation of samoa claiming at least four lives and forcing thousands from their homes. at least

eight people have been killed and fifty five injured after several explosions rocked the northern iraqi city of kirkuk no one has claimed responsibility yet for the attack the blast came only a few hours after a car bomb hit the office of the patriotic union of kurdistan party north of iraq e capital killing two security workers and wounding thirteen tension in the region that has been rising of late with kurds increasing their demands for sovereignty. activists in bahrain say police have used tear gas and hundreds of anti-government demonstrators as rallies flared up following the king's annual national day address the opposition is defying a ban on public gatherings with the country's shia majority seeking to improve their political standing in the sunni world lation hussein abella from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain says the situation in the gulf state won't change as long as the government which itself abuses human rights feels it

has western backing. only in bahrain when you protest peacefully you're arrested and you are tortured and your rights are taken away from you the king came up with a law that basically banned any kind of peaceful protest that's an itself this is a violation of international laws and the violence is coming from one side and that is the side of the government. the government is the one has the and the government one has. to present the torture techniques to the the extrajudicial killings that is a clear double clear double standard that wants comes to us foreign policy in the region especially rain and syria where a arise violations are committed and daily bases we hear no condemn nation from the united states. up next we brace ourselves for the cold weather and travel to the north of russia to the port city of mormons can stay with us here on r.t. .

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